[Dovecot] Per user special-use folder names

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at curecanti.org
Tue Feb 5 22:50:12 EET 2013


Quoting Patrick Ben Koetter <p at sys4.de>:

> That's part of what makes SPECIAL-USE so sexy. It is language independent.
> All it does is say "This mailbox is reserved for that particular usage." How
> you call it, is up to you (client).

Well.... not quite.  The problem comes when you have *multiple* sent  
mailboxes on your server, which is perfectly acceptable and quite  
useful (e.g. an MUA allows multiple identities, and each identity uses  
a separate sent-mail mailbox).  You can't just blindly show the local  
translation for "Sent" for all of the mailboxes, or else you've now  
eliminated the user's ability to differentiate between them.

In practical use, SPECIAL-USE isn't tremendously helpful for  
"auto-configuration" of an MUA because of these kind of vagaries.

michael




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